Sunday, October 29, 2006
The end of darkness:
More accurately, it's the end of the current darkness. You have to realize what we're witnessing people, is the end of the Bush-Cheney-Rumsfeld cabal, the end of the Republican party, (as it stands today,) and the end of the Radical Religious Right.
It matters little if the Democrats take control of one or both houses in Washington, D.C. in the next election cycle. It will be good if it happens because it means the investigations begin sooner, the real ugliness of the past six years comes to light sooner, and we can start to clean up the mess sooner. Even if they don't it will not change; Iraq, Iran, North Korea, Afghanistan, the American economy, massive corporate lay-offs, the fall of the housing market, the probable fall of the stock markets. We already see how angry the men in power become when things don't go their way. As things get worse they will get worse and everyone will see what monsters they are. This is all going to happen regardless of what you and I say or do. Nothing will change the way things are going to fall apart for the Bush Administration, Wal-Mart, and the rest of corporate America – because they have to. Lao Tzu writes in the Tao their way is a death trip and totally unsustainable. It's bound to crumble and fall.
What is important to keep in mind is this current cycle of darkness actually started twenty-six (26) years ago with the election of Ronald Reagan. Corporate media takeover and deregulation were catalysts for what Cheney and Rumsfeld have wrought. They've been around since the end of Vietnam and they see the world only one way. They don't wish to lose control and hand over power to the next generation, and they are dragging everyone in the world down with them. We all suffer from their avarice.
But we have to look backward even farther. Take off the rose-colored glasses when it comes to every single war in the 20th century, and likely every war in the 19th and 18th centuries. We have to examine our history to keep from making the same mistakes again. Many smarter and better men than I have stated this. Throughout history great men have told us to learn from history or be victimized by repeating our mistakes.
The people in power have made that fatal flaw. They have failed to learn from history and now they are learning just how wrong they were.
So be happy. Vote for a Democrat at the federal level. When the truth does come out they will not look much different from the people we currently call "Republicans." We all know they are neither – at least not in the historical sense of the world. The religious fanatics see the chaos but they interpret it as the "end of days." This is not the final chapter of the bible. It's ego and arrogance on their part to think they are that important, they are the inheritors of the kingdom of their god. It's like everyone who believes in reincarnation thinks they were Mozart. Everyone wants to think they're special.
I'm madly in love with one of those people who truly are special, who truly are great. Nearly all of us are just normal people, though slightly ahead of the curve by virtue of circumstance. I'm highly intelligent but I am not a genius. Most of my friends are smarter than I, but they are not special, (except to me.) We know the truly special people when we see them. I don't say this to flatter my partner, it's just the way things are.
But we are all good people. We are all smart and loyal and loving and gifted. In Texas they have many sayings, one of which is; "Water finds its own level." Usually this term is used when two people do something naughty – guilt by association. But the saying goes both ways. Moral people befriend moral people. Nice people fall in love with nice people. Honest men make life-long friendships with other honest men.
But if I were given license to judge humanity, and believe me no such license exists, the one judgment I might cite is we are arrogant and egoistic. I believe it is the human condition. It does not make us bad people or lower us in any manner.
The only reason I say this is so we can understand what drives the men in power, the men who screwed up. "Power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely." The truth is power is stronger than crack cocaine. Power is nearly stronger than love. I thank the universe that love is greater than power or we'd be dead by now. Any one of us who has gotten a little power understands this. We know the feeling. To the men who are currently in power their lives are like a constant orgasm. They have been given an overdose of power.
There are lessons to be learned from every war, every attack like 9-11, every suicide bomber – but we consistently learn the wrong lessons. We don't like to be scared or vulnerable so we look for the easiest answer, or the quickest person to give us the answer we seek – then we give that person (or people) too much power and attention. There was no reason for George W. Bush's standing in the polls to go from twenty percent (20%) on September 10 in 2001 to eighty percent (80%) a mere thirty days after. In fact, there was every reason for there to be a crisis of leadership. 9-11 should have made us recoil from the Bush-Cheney-Rumsfeld cabal.
And here's the other part of the lesson: The media has as much responsibility for everything as they do. Unless we understand this we are going to have a much more difficult time figuring out the truth over the next few years. Our dependence on TV and the major daily newspapers and the major news magazines let those men lead us down this path. We were watching "Survivor" when we should have been turning the TV off. We were warned about this and we didn't listen because we wanted our "bread and circuses." We let men like Rupert Murdoch come into our country (he's Australian) and dominate our mass media, let him feed us this crap. And he's still at it, (as are his cronies,) as evidenced by his purchase of MySpace.
So celebrate a little while you observe the fall of the current darkness. Soon there will be a lot of work for all of us. There will be no disabled, no idle citizen. Soon we will be horrified by what will be revealed. Soon we will be heart-broken at the untold suffering these evil men have caused. Soon we will know what our arrogance and ego have cost us. Soon we will mourn.
But even as we view the horror and destruction we all had a hand in bringing about, it will be the beginning of a whole new cycle. A cycle of Light. As life has always been, there will be destruction and creation, death and life, decay and growth.
My father was an aerospace engineer for a defense contractor during the Cold War. He was a good man; a Democrat, a Catholic, a Father and Grandfather. He tried to make the world a better place. But he also crafted instruments of military destruction. His life, like so many others, was a dichotomy, a mass of contradictions. He was good at designing electrical systems for advanced aircraft and he had a wife and six children to feed. I admire and love my father, but his work likely killed many people.
It's not as simple as we would like it to be. I truly wish it were. I've been watching for four decades now. I've seen the cycle, was taught its history as a child. I'm intelligent and aware and caring, but I don't know shit. The older I get the more I understand the less I truly know. They say that understanding how little we truly understand is the beginning of wisdom. I sincerely hope this is true.
I'm not the guy to listen to. I don't have any solutions to the toughest problems we are about to face. We all need to pay attention to the brilliant, the special, the enlightened. We also need to pay attention to each other, to those who have no voice. We need to stop trusting the mass media to inform us and entertain us. It's time for evolution and higher thought, not Bill O'Reilly and Tom Cruise.
I have hope today. I have faith today. I can see the end of the darkness. So can you if you really focus. The nightmare is over for us, and soon it will be over for everyone. You know the truth as well as I, probably more so. If we hang on our world will stop its descent into darkness. Soon all the lies and corruption will be exposed. It's over for them.
But they are still very dangerous men, like a wounded bear. They can do a lot more damage before they go. That is our current caution. While we celebrate our victory, earned from twenty-six years of corporate misery, we have to watch these guys as they fall and do our best to make sure they hurt the least amount of people when they hit the ground. The Democratic party taking back the majority in one or both houses would be a good start and a bulwark against how much further damage these guys can do. Men with nothing to lose are very dangerous men indeed. But we know that won't be enough. We know the next President will not be a "Republican," but that doesn't mean much.
There truly is a "culture of corruption" in politics and business today and it's hurting all of us. Most of those in the current power structure are already bought and paid for – Republicans and Democrats alike. All you have to do is look at the pharmaceutical industry – who give equal amounts of money to both sides of the aisle – insuring favor no matter who is in power. We need to clean house and start regulating industry again. Starting and/or furthering anti-trust and RICO investigations of Wal-Mart would be a good start. Our regulatory agencies have been polluted since 1980 when Reagan took power and deregulated so many key industries. We need to re-examine the history and nature of corporate charters. We need to wake a sleeping SEC immediately.
The trading of "futures" adds $20 to the price of every barrel of oil. People betting on potential wins and losses for the oil industry raise the price of oil for everyone in the world. They have no right to do that. We need to restore and strengthen our regulatory laws to make practices like this illegal.
Merely voting in some Democrats is not enough. We all know this. As I said, it's not going to be simple or easy. We need to look at people who don't seek power and money over human rights and dignity, then we need to watch them like hawks. We have to change our system to an open form of government with laser-like oversight of politics and industry.
Everyone knows we have the right to medical care. People are finally starting to demand it. Once we rid ourselves of the so-called "managed care industry," which takes billions of dollars from our medical system and gives nothing back in return except complex rules and yards of red tape that keeps doctors from patients. Doctors hate them and patients hate them. Thousands, maybe millions of people will lose their jobs – but they're jobs they don't deserve to have. They are no different than the people trading on oil futures. They know and we know it.
Thousands of people are laid-off purely for the amusement of a few stock-holders who benefit from the short-term boost in the company's stock price. We know this is true and we know this is wrong. It's long past time to restore and strengthen worker's rights. Then we need to address the poor, the disabled, (who are often the same,) and the homeless. We need to address all those who are emotionally and mentally ill who are not being treated. This isn't socialism or communism – it's human compassion. Our country was founded on principles we are not living up to. They were the vision of men who, just for a short time, stopped thinking about themselves and started thinking about all their fellow countrymen.
We are still the wealthiest and most powerful nation on the planet. We will probably lose that position to China or Russia in the near future. We will still be feeding the world. My home state (California) has the sixth-largest economy in the world. It could be its own country and it would be very wealthy and powerful. My state is a powerful member of a very fortunate group that comprises one of the greatest nations on earth.
People looked up to us before and they will again. It will take time, behavior, and the rebuilding of trust and goodwill we have squandered. We have to fix things in the right manner and with the right motivation. We have to end the Fear and Hate that is currently destroying us. Like the behavior of the men currently in power – such a condition is unsustainable. Humans cannot survive in an atmosphere of Fear and Hate. It will kill us.
We still invent the most amazing things. We still produce great art; literature and music that still inspires others. Buy my book when it comes out, then buy another book. Go see a play, or better yet be in one. Or run the lights or sound. Take an art class. Write your own book. Support the arts in ways that may finally do it justice.
There exists a not-for-profit drug company. Imagine that.
Because oversight and balance, art, medicine for those who can least afford it – are the things that will bring us into the Light and save us. We've tried the corporate view and found it lacks compassion and dignity for everyone. Time to try something new. Humanity is not something to be afforded. Compassion should not have a cost. Dignity should never be merely a privilege. Our country was founded on these things and we became the most powerful and admired nation in less than 200 years. These are our strengths.
To earn the forgiveness of all the people we have harmed, we must first clean our own house. This is a concept as old as spiritual thought. We become an example and then a practitioner. It's time to enter the 21st century with a strong foundation for the generations to follow us. It is time for our country to grow up. We are a nation of leaders and inventors. It is time for us to lead and inspire again.
So celebrate the end of the current darkness, and look towards making the Light of the future as bright and strong as possible. We may never rest as long as we draw breath. Maybe that's part of what it means to be an American. But we can finally see the end of the nightmare that has plagued us. Let us make sure it can never, ever happen again.
Phillip T. Alden
October 2006
San Francisco, CA
More accurately, it's the end of the current darkness. You have to realize what we're witnessing people, is the end of the Bush-Cheney-Rumsfeld cabal, the end of the Republican party, (as it stands today,) and the end of the Radical Religious Right.
It matters little if the Democrats take control of one or both houses in Washington, D.C. in the next election cycle. It will be good if it happens because it means the investigations begin sooner, the real ugliness of the past six years comes to light sooner, and we can start to clean up the mess sooner. Even if they don't it will not change; Iraq, Iran, North Korea, Afghanistan, the American economy, massive corporate lay-offs, the fall of the housing market, the probable fall of the stock markets. We already see how angry the men in power become when things don't go their way. As things get worse they will get worse and everyone will see what monsters they are. This is all going to happen regardless of what you and I say or do. Nothing will change the way things are going to fall apart for the Bush Administration, Wal-Mart, and the rest of corporate America – because they have to. Lao Tzu writes in the Tao their way is a death trip and totally unsustainable. It's bound to crumble and fall.
What is important to keep in mind is this current cycle of darkness actually started twenty-six (26) years ago with the election of Ronald Reagan. Corporate media takeover and deregulation were catalysts for what Cheney and Rumsfeld have wrought. They've been around since the end of Vietnam and they see the world only one way. They don't wish to lose control and hand over power to the next generation, and they are dragging everyone in the world down with them. We all suffer from their avarice.
But we have to look backward even farther. Take off the rose-colored glasses when it comes to every single war in the 20th century, and likely every war in the 19th and 18th centuries. We have to examine our history to keep from making the same mistakes again. Many smarter and better men than I have stated this. Throughout history great men have told us to learn from history or be victimized by repeating our mistakes.
The people in power have made that fatal flaw. They have failed to learn from history and now they are learning just how wrong they were.
So be happy. Vote for a Democrat at the federal level. When the truth does come out they will not look much different from the people we currently call "Republicans." We all know they are neither – at least not in the historical sense of the world. The religious fanatics see the chaos but they interpret it as the "end of days." This is not the final chapter of the bible. It's ego and arrogance on their part to think they are that important, they are the inheritors of the kingdom of their god. It's like everyone who believes in reincarnation thinks they were Mozart. Everyone wants to think they're special.
I'm madly in love with one of those people who truly are special, who truly are great. Nearly all of us are just normal people, though slightly ahead of the curve by virtue of circumstance. I'm highly intelligent but I am not a genius. Most of my friends are smarter than I, but they are not special, (except to me.) We know the truly special people when we see them. I don't say this to flatter my partner, it's just the way things are.
But we are all good people. We are all smart and loyal and loving and gifted. In Texas they have many sayings, one of which is; "Water finds its own level." Usually this term is used when two people do something naughty – guilt by association. But the saying goes both ways. Moral people befriend moral people. Nice people fall in love with nice people. Honest men make life-long friendships with other honest men.
But if I were given license to judge humanity, and believe me no such license exists, the one judgment I might cite is we are arrogant and egoistic. I believe it is the human condition. It does not make us bad people or lower us in any manner.
The only reason I say this is so we can understand what drives the men in power, the men who screwed up. "Power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely." The truth is power is stronger than crack cocaine. Power is nearly stronger than love. I thank the universe that love is greater than power or we'd be dead by now. Any one of us who has gotten a little power understands this. We know the feeling. To the men who are currently in power their lives are like a constant orgasm. They have been given an overdose of power.
There are lessons to be learned from every war, every attack like 9-11, every suicide bomber – but we consistently learn the wrong lessons. We don't like to be scared or vulnerable so we look for the easiest answer, or the quickest person to give us the answer we seek – then we give that person (or people) too much power and attention. There was no reason for George W. Bush's standing in the polls to go from twenty percent (20%) on September 10 in 2001 to eighty percent (80%) a mere thirty days after. In fact, there was every reason for there to be a crisis of leadership. 9-11 should have made us recoil from the Bush-Cheney-Rumsfeld cabal.
And here's the other part of the lesson: The media has as much responsibility for everything as they do. Unless we understand this we are going to have a much more difficult time figuring out the truth over the next few years. Our dependence on TV and the major daily newspapers and the major news magazines let those men lead us down this path. We were watching "Survivor" when we should have been turning the TV off. We were warned about this and we didn't listen because we wanted our "bread and circuses." We let men like Rupert Murdoch come into our country (he's Australian) and dominate our mass media, let him feed us this crap. And he's still at it, (as are his cronies,) as evidenced by his purchase of MySpace.
So celebrate a little while you observe the fall of the current darkness. Soon there will be a lot of work for all of us. There will be no disabled, no idle citizen. Soon we will be horrified by what will be revealed. Soon we will be heart-broken at the untold suffering these evil men have caused. Soon we will know what our arrogance and ego have cost us. Soon we will mourn.
But even as we view the horror and destruction we all had a hand in bringing about, it will be the beginning of a whole new cycle. A cycle of Light. As life has always been, there will be destruction and creation, death and life, decay and growth.
My father was an aerospace engineer for a defense contractor during the Cold War. He was a good man; a Democrat, a Catholic, a Father and Grandfather. He tried to make the world a better place. But he also crafted instruments of military destruction. His life, like so many others, was a dichotomy, a mass of contradictions. He was good at designing electrical systems for advanced aircraft and he had a wife and six children to feed. I admire and love my father, but his work likely killed many people.
It's not as simple as we would like it to be. I truly wish it were. I've been watching for four decades now. I've seen the cycle, was taught its history as a child. I'm intelligent and aware and caring, but I don't know shit. The older I get the more I understand the less I truly know. They say that understanding how little we truly understand is the beginning of wisdom. I sincerely hope this is true.
I'm not the guy to listen to. I don't have any solutions to the toughest problems we are about to face. We all need to pay attention to the brilliant, the special, the enlightened. We also need to pay attention to each other, to those who have no voice. We need to stop trusting the mass media to inform us and entertain us. It's time for evolution and higher thought, not Bill O'Reilly and Tom Cruise.
I have hope today. I have faith today. I can see the end of the darkness. So can you if you really focus. The nightmare is over for us, and soon it will be over for everyone. You know the truth as well as I, probably more so. If we hang on our world will stop its descent into darkness. Soon all the lies and corruption will be exposed. It's over for them.
But they are still very dangerous men, like a wounded bear. They can do a lot more damage before they go. That is our current caution. While we celebrate our victory, earned from twenty-six years of corporate misery, we have to watch these guys as they fall and do our best to make sure they hurt the least amount of people when they hit the ground. The Democratic party taking back the majority in one or both houses would be a good start and a bulwark against how much further damage these guys can do. Men with nothing to lose are very dangerous men indeed. But we know that won't be enough. We know the next President will not be a "Republican," but that doesn't mean much.
There truly is a "culture of corruption" in politics and business today and it's hurting all of us. Most of those in the current power structure are already bought and paid for – Republicans and Democrats alike. All you have to do is look at the pharmaceutical industry – who give equal amounts of money to both sides of the aisle – insuring favor no matter who is in power. We need to clean house and start regulating industry again. Starting and/or furthering anti-trust and RICO investigations of Wal-Mart would be a good start. Our regulatory agencies have been polluted since 1980 when Reagan took power and deregulated so many key industries. We need to re-examine the history and nature of corporate charters. We need to wake a sleeping SEC immediately.
The trading of "futures" adds $20 to the price of every barrel of oil. People betting on potential wins and losses for the oil industry raise the price of oil for everyone in the world. They have no right to do that. We need to restore and strengthen our regulatory laws to make practices like this illegal.
Merely voting in some Democrats is not enough. We all know this. As I said, it's not going to be simple or easy. We need to look at people who don't seek power and money over human rights and dignity, then we need to watch them like hawks. We have to change our system to an open form of government with laser-like oversight of politics and industry.
Everyone knows we have the right to medical care. People are finally starting to demand it. Once we rid ourselves of the so-called "managed care industry," which takes billions of dollars from our medical system and gives nothing back in return except complex rules and yards of red tape that keeps doctors from patients. Doctors hate them and patients hate them. Thousands, maybe millions of people will lose their jobs – but they're jobs they don't deserve to have. They are no different than the people trading on oil futures. They know and we know it.
Thousands of people are laid-off purely for the amusement of a few stock-holders who benefit from the short-term boost in the company's stock price. We know this is true and we know this is wrong. It's long past time to restore and strengthen worker's rights. Then we need to address the poor, the disabled, (who are often the same,) and the homeless. We need to address all those who are emotionally and mentally ill who are not being treated. This isn't socialism or communism – it's human compassion. Our country was founded on principles we are not living up to. They were the vision of men who, just for a short time, stopped thinking about themselves and started thinking about all their fellow countrymen.
We are still the wealthiest and most powerful nation on the planet. We will probably lose that position to China or Russia in the near future. We will still be feeding the world. My home state (California) has the sixth-largest economy in the world. It could be its own country and it would be very wealthy and powerful. My state is a powerful member of a very fortunate group that comprises one of the greatest nations on earth.
People looked up to us before and they will again. It will take time, behavior, and the rebuilding of trust and goodwill we have squandered. We have to fix things in the right manner and with the right motivation. We have to end the Fear and Hate that is currently destroying us. Like the behavior of the men currently in power – such a condition is unsustainable. Humans cannot survive in an atmosphere of Fear and Hate. It will kill us.
We still invent the most amazing things. We still produce great art; literature and music that still inspires others. Buy my book when it comes out, then buy another book. Go see a play, or better yet be in one. Or run the lights or sound. Take an art class. Write your own book. Support the arts in ways that may finally do it justice.
There exists a not-for-profit drug company. Imagine that.
Because oversight and balance, art, medicine for those who can least afford it – are the things that will bring us into the Light and save us. We've tried the corporate view and found it lacks compassion and dignity for everyone. Time to try something new. Humanity is not something to be afforded. Compassion should not have a cost. Dignity should never be merely a privilege. Our country was founded on these things and we became the most powerful and admired nation in less than 200 years. These are our strengths.
To earn the forgiveness of all the people we have harmed, we must first clean our own house. This is a concept as old as spiritual thought. We become an example and then a practitioner. It's time to enter the 21st century with a strong foundation for the generations to follow us. It is time for our country to grow up. We are a nation of leaders and inventors. It is time for us to lead and inspire again.
So celebrate the end of the current darkness, and look towards making the Light of the future as bright and strong as possible. We may never rest as long as we draw breath. Maybe that's part of what it means to be an American. But we can finally see the end of the nightmare that has plagued us. Let us make sure it can never, ever happen again.
Phillip T. Alden
October 2006
San Francisco, CA
Wednesday, October 18, 2006
Fed-Up With Republicans?
I went hiking with my best friend on Monday. We grew up around the corner from each other, but although my parents were life-long Democrats his were life-long Republicans, even though my friend did not share his parent's political beliefs. My friend told me his father was "fed-up" with Bush and the Republicans over Social Security and Iraq.
We're talking about a man who voted Republican all his life – until now. After venting he started listening to his son, and by the time my friend was through he said; "That settles it. I'm voting Democratic in November." My friend says this means he's not going to vote for ANY Republican on the ticket.
NPR has been running many stories about the national political races, and they keep interviewing people who are so angry with Bush and the Republicans they are either changing their vote or withholding it from Republican candidates. The poll numbers keep getting worse and I've heard some Republicans have simply given up on some races.
Add the disaster that is Iraq, the Foley scandal, the lobbying scandal, and concern over the so-called "Detainee Act" – and you have a country finally opening its eyes. All the bad stuff done under Bush is coming back to haunt them, (and us,) and the anemic press can no longer simply be stenographers for the Bush Administration. Mr. And Mrs. Main Street are finally starting to hear about the innocent people that our military and KBR tortured to death, and (rightly so) they're beginning to say; "Hey! That's not the American way!"
Those of us who have been watching this stuff for the past six years are finally starting to breathe a sigh of relief – grateful our fellow Americans are finally waking up. We hesitate to tell them everything for fear of overwhelming the poor dears, even though the frustrated part of us wants to slam them with the dozens of dirty deeds done by Cheney and Rummy in Bush's name.
I want to tell them to go back 26 years and stop looking at Ronald Reagan with rose-colored glasses, but I know not to expect too much at once. It will be hard enough on them finding out all the stuff done in their names (with their votes) within the past six years.
But I feel like I'm starting to see light at the end of this dark tunnel we've been in for the past six years. I'm actually feeling hopeful. I'm even imagining Bush Administration members in orange jump suits. What is the penalty for attempting to undermine our Constitution? Does that fall under the definition of Treason? They shoot people for that, don't they?
Dream big they always say.
But I have some hope today that I did not have before.
Tuesday, October 03, 2006
Journalism Worth Supporting:
Lately I've been paying less attention to the mainstream media and its usual thin slices of corporate-based "reality" in favor of the alternative press. Aside from some excellent bloggers like Digby, (Hullabaloo,) and The Infamous Brad (Hicks,) or the ever erudite Billmon - all of whom deserve your readership and your support; I recommend supporting the following:
AlterNet is a wonderful collection of the "best of the alternative press," and both deserves and needs your financial support. It should go without saying I recommend reading it as well.
Project Censored is another good organization that reports on the most important stories the corporate mass media failed to print; like the number of people who died in American custody, people we tortured to death under the auspices of the Bush Administration.
Without these organizations there's a good chance the American people would not hear about vital stories, like the organ damage caused by eating genetically-modified foods. Project Censored vetted all their stories through scientific sources, (meaning respected professors at top-flight universities and/or government scientists.)
Honorable mention goes to The Christian Science Monitor.
Lately I've been paying less attention to the mainstream media and its usual thin slices of corporate-based "reality" in favor of the alternative press. Aside from some excellent bloggers like Digby, (Hullabaloo,) and The Infamous Brad (Hicks,) or the ever erudite Billmon - all of whom deserve your readership and your support; I recommend supporting the following:
AlterNet is a wonderful collection of the "best of the alternative press," and both deserves and needs your financial support. It should go without saying I recommend reading it as well.
Project Censored is another good organization that reports on the most important stories the corporate mass media failed to print; like the number of people who died in American custody, people we tortured to death under the auspices of the Bush Administration.
Without these organizations there's a good chance the American people would not hear about vital stories, like the organ damage caused by eating genetically-modified foods. Project Censored vetted all their stories through scientific sources, (meaning respected professors at top-flight universities and/or government scientists.)
Honorable mention goes to The Christian Science Monitor.
